The Signal protocol and the MLS (Message Layer Security) protocol are both designed for end-to-end encryption of messages.

The Signal protocol is particularly suited for one-on-one chats and small group. On the other hand, the MLS protocol is more appropriate for larger group.

Both can be implemented on Nostr.

If you are interested in understanding the basic principles of these protocols, I highly recommend the following two videos:

https://youtu.be/7uEeE3TUqmU

https://youtu.be/FESp2LHd42U


We should consider Telegram as a modern message board/forum app with a chat-like UI, rather than a secure and private chat application. They are different applications.


The x-rays of Kennedy's head were doctored. They did that to hide the clear exit wound at the back of his head, which the entire medical staff testified to seeing when Kennedy got to the hospital. Why? Because an exit wound at the back of the head means that he was shot from the front and that means there was a second shooter.

Just one of the many details of the Kennedy assassination that were clearly coverups.


The cost of freedom is freedom itself.

nostr:note104muu4rwmp47zahqjuf9p7eqswqjg7m2rdz4jns4c85datnjzefq88whmw


nostr needs to stop shoving bitcoin down everyones throats and just make it another subtle and useful tool in the nostr toolbox. People should feel comfortable coming to a nostr conference without being a bitcoin maxi. nostr:note1u3w3dwy57p88ecgrkgr0ujacag0jnmctltunxw0p96heu2veh8jqh9m3vw


speed is the most important feature.

being able to send a note/post via text, have it fully render, and instantly load when someone clicks on it, is one of the biggest things that will help build network effect.

communities, such as ditto, and giving people the option to make them private and encrypted, is a net new feature not found on any other platform that will draw people to the nostr social app protocol, and be the best onboarding and discovery tool out there. people care a lot more about privacy than censorship-resistance.

getting as much content and information on here, welcoming of the bots and agentic AI, will allow this protocol to be the only one that can definitively state: "see everything." especially since no individual/corporation/government can delete your content or account.

this is what i would prioritize. the past two years of nostr has been about exploring the breadth of the protocol. great! it's now time to go deep and focus on quality and differentiated experiences. not copies of copies.


Strangely catch #sonstr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6PNmvio1GM


`nak req --paginate relay.url` allows you to download a possibly unlimited amount of events from a relay, even if they impose some arbitrary limit per request.

See this and other tricks at https://github.com/fiatjaf/nak?tab=readme-ov-file#download-the-latest-50000-notes-from-a-relay-regardless-of-their-natural-query-limits-by-paginating-requests


Deep state tried to use open source to get a back door into Telegram, without anyone noticing.

https://www.newsweek.com/telegram-tucker-carlson-government-spying-1891398


Bitcoin has the potential to remove violence from the pursuit of self preservation.

When everyone has access to and is building on top of a bitcoin standard incentives will change on a global scale.

Fix the money, fix the world.


I registered fomostr.com as a very straightforward way to interact with DVM feed algos.

One year later, I can let this domain expire with quite a few clients, including some of the most popular ones, providing native support to interact with these algos.

The future is purple bright.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/fa984bd7dbb282f07e16e7ae87b26a2a7b9b90b7246a44771f0cf5ae58018f52/5ad4cc9598fa234ca783d83bd5ea401762a6f0c1a2b7721de1e8bca53dc62483.webp


Mental illness https://image.nostr.build/84e35a2932079cc35d3bb99a5ec4e304d8ffd8c1dc379c9a9bdf25970007d5f7.jpg


-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.


Kind reminder: open-source developers on Nostr are assuming a huge amount of risk.

Yes, Nostr is a Hydra, and when totalitarians cut off one head two more will grow in its place… But each developer IS a head, and by simply writing code they put themselves in a dangerous position. By writing code that enables freedom technology, they make themselves a target.

They know this, and they do it anyway.

It should not be this way, I know. Code is speech. But it is the reality of the world we live in today.

Thankfully, open-source developers are creating tools that will make the world of tomorrow a better, freer one. The kind of world you want your children to inherit.

So, whatever Nostr client you’re reading this on, go zap the developer. Give them some of your monetary energy.

They fucking deserve it. nostr:note1sqfy325zy39fqvc0yhr0u992gdpdp28x6hfkwavm0gs4hj083xrs8j5q95


I warn about this nostr:note1mule3sdst4h244w9qru9hdlwzvljh2f7q3mh2ss30k4d7wm3awfsnfvc0k


Just used nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 and nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm to pay for dinner at #meatlab in #venice!

Thanks also to nostr:npub1864jglrrhv6alguwql9pqtmd5296nww5dpcewapmmcazk8vq4mks0tt2tq

Had the obligatory #nostr conversation with Frederico too!

#bitcoin #grownostr #foodstr #yumstr #orangepill #purplepill https://image.nostr.build/c616ff37269fa31e81e417acfa8a329f92ce50b77feef1ac7eea6ed620aef569.jpg https://i.nostr.build/jQ0VasZUhuMkYAWc.jpg https://i.nostr.build/bda0RXcjH6bCGaOG.jpg https://i.nostr.build/qsCtntXPuMcGkYrm.jpg https://i.nostr.build/6DyJiNgG62ZQtoX6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ebd8d20b14d980abacc1d4d98df49c2680be96f072f0ebcc67c84b1b76bbcc5f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3ae0194a42db9ff4dfff06eca9c82e829af0e530f81690b46391caa3e9cf761f.jpg https://i.nostr.build/ZgPNVipWOukKaHBF.jpg


nostr: see everything


👀 https://braiins.com/books/building-bitcoin-in-rust


YOUTUBE JUST BANNED SIMPLY BITCOIN

After 4 years of building up the SB channel, putting in 100s of hours of work and making sure to follow the community guidelines
@YouTube

@TeamYouTube
 seems to continue to go after Bitcoin only content.


We’re proud to announce that we’ve just renewed our sponsorship and continue to stand fully behind @SimplyBitcoinTV

Keep up the great work guys 🔥

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We recently released Boltz Backend v3.7.3 "Rewrite in Rust" 🤓

Highlights:
- Introduction of the rust sidecar, a Node.js child process greatly improving performance of resource-intensive tasks
- OpenTelemetry tracing, improved Prometheus metrics
- Swap status updates via Webhooks
- Custom description hashes for invoices of Reverse Swaps
- Several EVM features for our upcoming Rootstock integration

For the full rundown check the release notes: https://github.com/BoltzExchange/boltz-backend/releases/tag/v3.7.3


Why I’m in #Rust Bitcoin developer for now
	✓	Deep cryptography (Post Quantum, Curve elliptic…)
	✓	Deep LDK, Rust Bitcoin and BDK
	✓	Training my skills with this
	✓	Computer Science
	✓	AI


High motivation and average skills > high skills and average motivation.


We are living in a world with the last moments of freedom of expression. #Nostr is the last way out.


I tried (and somewhat succeeded) in taking a week off work.

Unfortunately, I did rework the nostrdb cursor code, because it annoyed my sensibilities of how iteration across protocols should be written.

I'm still not happy with the results, but I did find some bugs!

And reading code by changing stuff and reading the compiler errors has another problem: I still don't know exactly what this code is trying to *do*!


NOSTRIGA: WEBS OF TRUST DISCUSSION

https://cdn.satellite.earth/7f75cca23348fab995481ca10d53c73fcfe6c3ca1e16e7b0c209e35b1e450b69.mp4


Bitcoin is mathematical purity, it is absolute and undeniable numerical truth. Bitcoin is sacred geometry for your money.


I believe in God
and I believe that God
believes in nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6


Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqsfc93uwdgl3qetpz6kewewp9vkp5w9qcxadv8yv85p8u8sw3v3r8spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvtcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmp9e3k7mf0zeg2qy for this incredible conference. Nostr sparked a movement I was searching for well over a decade. It really does feel like we're taking back the Internet, one app at a time.

Stack sats, seed torrents, run relays, zap nuts, open PRs. Here is my humble contribution to this amazing event. The image says "wicked". 🫡
 https://image.nostr.build/40657caea0c979a521b0de3b46bebac969f7f421c379da48fb1c6ef0c14c7ffc.jpg

🎥👇

https://youtu.be/OHqxp-Hrx9k


"A rising number of bitcoiners are all in, forcing them to spend some of their bitcoin. If 100% of your inflow is in bitcoin (or: no inflow, 100% BTC balance), you will have to spend sats on food, shelter, and other necessities. No matter how much you don't want to." —Block 649,120 (2020-09-19)
https://dergigi.com/assets/images/bitcoin/2020-09-19-flows/14.png
https://dergigi.com/threads/flows


🔥 Hot off our $2.5M pre-seed raise, we’re offering an exclusive sneak peek at Ark Node—our flagship wallet daemon designed for fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions over Lightning via an easy-to-use dashboard! 💸⚡

Ark Node isn't just another wallet. It's a powerful tool designed to unlock the full potential of the Lightning Network, featuring:

✅ Trustless Swaps
✅ Seamless Node Integration
✅ Cheap BTC Transfers

Want early access? Sign up now for a chance to be among the first 100 chosen to join our closed beta, kicking off in September.

🧑🔬Spots are limited, so be quick! ⏰

https://arklabs.to/ark-node

https://m.primal.net/KJfL.mp4


"People don't care." @jack on privacy and AML/KYC re: Twitter at #nostriga

What a fucking stupid argument. The market created Nostr for starters, used by people who do care. Equally _lots_ of people are failing to get blue checks for privacy reasons.


the algorithms are getting to the point where they are sending the same content to everyone. almost every platform. copy of a copy of a copy only to maximize ad impressions.

straight programming, just like the programming of radio, tv, and cable.

i want to be able to create, choose, and share my own algorithms. only way out of the bubbles being created. 🫧


Make cryptography great again

#bitcoin


"Bitcoin is money. Multicoinery is barter. " —Conner Brown


Import content from Ghost to Nostr, anyone?

Here is a work-in-progress tool for that: https://npub.pro/import-ghost

You can bring articles from your Ghost site to Nostr and make them accessible for people here to zap/react/comment.

Eventually the tool will let you copy all website settings from Ghost to an npub.pro site. For now - content only.

Ghost is great, but nothing beats adding your cryptographic signature to your article and broadcasting it to an open interoperable network, right?!

P.S. A reminder about a similar tool for Twitter: https://exit.pub


👀 nostr:note17jqv3typtv2va0gq8s2xl7fn86v4z5t98sxyyawrleqkuqae89sqkw93l0


Listening to nostr:nprofile1qqszxnz9l7z6x8qehacs3f68lfa7nn22l9w86cs7quyqegkkvwa505spzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0fxllmw & nostr:nprofile1qqszd0fjceer9003d5z7wclvvlvgxq27hx0azf5sy53ycgxxeldszkqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsks60gr at nostr:nprofile1qqsfc93uwdgl3qetpz6kewewp9vkp5w9qcxadv8yv85p8u8sw3v3r8spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvtcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmp9e3k7mf0zeg2qy #Nostriga about intricates of albinos.

https://image.nostr.build/1c2c1832cee7083396ce08250c7f06d4844ac3b05c49928808a310a58f7146bf.jpg


Go build something beautiful today.


Bankrupt them !
by  nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs
https://m.primal.net/KJEo.mp4


Just sat through the "Scaling Nostr: The Future of Decentralized Relays" panel at #nostriga

I'm very disappointed. Despite this supposedly being a talk about decentralized relays, _nothing_ mentioned in the panel was actually decentralized. Not a single damn thing.


Banks and Governments should be abolished nostr:note1457wapm05j44ehwu0p6n3ylntpc0gm2l25cet444ktw64snsdg3qjmj50a


Deutsche Bank has terminated the account of a UN accredited human rights activist.

AML/CFT laws are routinely weaponized to silence dissent without any recourse or due process. It's the outsourcing of policing powers to private institutions without democratic oversight, where the presumption of innocence and right to fair trial do not exist.

AML/CFT needs to be abolished today.

https://m.primal.net/KJFG.png


Big news! We’ve secured a $2.5M pre-seed led by Tim Draper and Draper Ventures, with key backing from Fulgur Ventures, Axiom Capital and Bitcoin angel investor, Stephen Cole, fueling our mission to make Bitcoin the future of global commerce! 🌎

https://blog.arklabs.to/ark-labs-secures-2-5-million-pre-seed-to-power-the-future-of-bitcoin-driven-global-commerce-9b5b19fe1a37


#RunDVM, soon coming to Primal as well.

https://i.nostr.build/ozen9V9V2v228gcR.jpg

nostr:nevent1qqsvkqsgcq7fjpytla87skw8383nh0e6ehld7xd88z4fu0j37cjyxegpz3mhxw309ucnydewxqhrqt338g6rsd3e9upzpq35r7yzkm4te5460u00jz4djcw0qa90zku7739qn7wj4ralhe4zqvzqqqqqqyjql79d


We're now a commodity.

There's a saying that's become a bit of a cliche at this point: If you're getting something for free, you're the product. Indeed, that's the case for a lot of free services online like Google, Facebook and Instagram. These are companies that sell your attention to advertisers, your data to analytics firms and your tendencies to propagandists. More to the point, there are lots more free things like TV and radio that have been selling the same for a long time. You are the product.

What's concerning is that we're not being sold for advertising, but now for gambling. Sports these days is more about fantasy football and prop bets than it is cheering for your team. And nearly every crypto ad is about joining their casino. Even pay-to-play games are exploiting this dynamic, where getting us addicted is a lot more profitable than merely getting our attention.

It's a whole new evil out there. Stop being someone else's commodity.


ZEUS mentioned in this week’s nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as Financial Freedom Report

https://hrf.org/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-37


I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡


nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg Calle's speech starts at 55:40, a fantastic presentation.

https://www.youtube.com/live/Zv766SV840k https://image.nostr.build/e272efd03ccedfd34dbb7b7053605c92bfe31136320f30ef88fb84ae3321e993.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6e8a824c692c36bcd118578cd0312c801e14f17b7108fa1b5032dc887af00d58.jpg


In case you didn't see:
nostr:nevent1qqstzv760tkx48ec3sh90a2gr3v25ygl3s95p4lgq3pj6z579q7vsegpz3mhxw309ucnydewxqhrqt338g6rsd3e9upzpxdm2kgujytxqruy2yrax8umt83003lqng0lsqhgfuw58kj40jnyqvzqqqqqqy300na0


a nostr unconference first: an influencer podcaster running a panel

we made it
https://m.primal.net/KHsc.jpg


NOSTRIGA LIVE STREAM:

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxgwtyvs6ngefs943xzvty956rxe35943xycfs956r2etrvvukzvf4xyunqqg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09upzpn6956apxcad0mfp8grcuugdysg44eepex68h50t73zcathmfs49qvzqqqrkvu5nf6uu


Tomorrow starting at 10 AM, nostr:nprofile1qqs8d3c64cayj8canmky0jap0c3fekjpzwsthdhx4cthd4my8c5u47spzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43z7qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy3hwumn8ghj7urjdau8jtt90pcx2unfd4jkuapwdah8yetwv3jhytnrdaks0duay6 will help organize small breakout sessions and conversations at the nostr:nprofile1qqsfc93uwdgl3qetpz6kewewp9vkp5w9qcxadv8yv85p8u8sw3v3r8spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvtcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmp9e3k7mf0zeg2qy DIY Stage at #Nostriga.

Come today and post your topic on the board with sticky note, and Rabble will integrate it into the schedule for tomorrow's conversations.

https://image.nostr.build/d62456420bb35fbbcd37a3e5625f9a1eb474d3d289cded0bef2cd898dbdd7b5c.jpg

The final schedule will be on https://github.com/orgs/nostrworld/projects/3/views/22


#Nostriga #Hornet-Storage

HOLY! This looks amazing.  nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h - some screengrabs of the GUI for a new nostr relay by Colby Serpa!
 nostr:npub1t89vhkp66hz54kga4n635jwqdc977uc2crnuyddx7maznwfrpupqwra5h9

https://i.nostr.build/MqUo8GI13JaqUzBS.png
https://i.nostr.build/gvDydRWgr61H3fL0.png
https://i.nostr.build/L1HMXS8wNuwoag9g.png

#nostr #grownostr #devs


The dick jokes will continue until morale improves. nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft #nostriga
https://m.primal.net/KHkY.jpg


All according to the playbook:

1) use propaganda to spread the "awareness" of how decentralized money is only used by criminals and how it harms kids
2) threaten to ban it
3) keep the companies participating in this alive but gradually impose more and more regulation and compliance on them
4) use propaganda to spread the "awareness" of how many baby seals bitcoin mining is killing
5) "embrace" bitcoin through etfs so "bitcoiners" are happy and distracted
6) more propaganda: we're not banning bitcoin, your bank is selling you "bitcoin" now, we're friends, vote for me.
7) attack privacy technologies that interfere with your surveillance
8) but NgU, orange man good, cypherpunks forgotten
9) crack down on cash payments since its only used by pedophiles anyway
10) crack down on "non-compliant" ways for people to buy bitcoin (only hurts a minority, masses dont care cuz its just some nieche companies and solutions disappearing

---- WE ARE HERE NOW ----

10) more strict laws incoming or already here(MiCA, travel rule, AML etc)
11) NgU, we are changing the world bla bla, bitcoin fixes this, blackrock buys my bags
12) Cash payments disappear, cunts in brussels reading your cope texts to your cryptobros
13) privacy gone, cash long forgotten, what is p2p electronic money
14) can i haz more NgU, i need my orange lambo
15) propaganda: west embraces "bitcoin", "developed" countries  have bitcoin balance sheet
16) majority of people use bitcoin as their grandfathers savings account through their bank. most of them never done a transaction outside of their broker. NgU so the world is good, bitcoin will change everything.
17) 90% of transactions follow travel rule and are between kyc'd wallets
18) bitcoin won because you get to tell your parents that you were right to buy the pet rock since you can now afford the 1bedroom apartment since bitcoin crossed $2million
19) the only non-kyc lightning nodes are 3 raspis on tor in someones basement
20) remaining 10% onchain transactions are force closures by LND
21) bitcoin effectively becomes cbdc and nobody notices

nostr:note1gz7sun5wtkxvfv8n7kq8vgdlcwkl78wwn7xrwj553mk8604r2als7xj66z


now we’re talking
https://m.primal.net/KHih.jpg


Huge. #Nostriga https://i.nostr.build/LdOi4aWZaA9HvXLO.jpg


https://m.primal.net/KGmY.mov

Fountain 1.1 with #nostr is now live on iOS and Android!

Why Nostr?

We regularly hear from both listeners and podcasters that the social features in Fountain are a great way to discover content that's worth listening to.

When you support a podcast, or comment on an episode, your message is surfaced to your followers in the Fountain home feed and anyone that sees these can add the content to their library.

But this came with a few problems. When you first start using Fountain you wouldn't have any followers so your posts wouldn't get seen. If you wanted to share something you were listening to, you had to choose between leaving a comment on Fountain, or sharing on another social platform.

Today we are excited to announce a massive update to Fountain that solves these problems with Nostr:

- You can bring your existing profile and followers to Fountain
- Your boosts and comments will be surfaced in other Nostr clients
- Posts shared from other Nostr clients relating to audio will appear in your feed
- Conversation and interactions now flow freely across multiple apps

Read more about the new Fountain nostr features here: https://blog.fountain.fm/p/1-1


This week's guest article by Jorge Jraissati, Venezuelan activist and president of the Economic Inclusion Group, delves into the power of decentralized technologies like Bitcoin and Nostr in nonviolent resistance. By circumventing the regime’s stranglehold on finance and communication, these tools offer Venezuelans a vital means of fighting for a more open, just, and democratic society.

Read the full piece here:
https://hrf.org/the-role-of-freedom-tech-in-venezuela


◦	Bolt Machine ☑
	◦	Rust L402 ☑
	◦	Docker DLC ⏳🔜


🔥🔥 nostr:note19a8vln45njhn0gjrydsydkte99hfmwlrqey9c86rqs82wamxfpasfuq224


Bitcoin Core releases are being published by nostr:nprofile1qqsq4gu7tthengqq577mpdyezkxf90z25g8mvkf355ks2k67km0lwwq67cfhm as torrents advertised on Nostr: nostr:nevent1qqsdsg6x7uujekac4ga7k7qa9q9sx8gqj7xzjf5w9us0dm0ghvf4ugsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsq4gu7tthengqq577mpdyezkxf90z25g8mvkf355ks2k67km0lwwqrqsqqqp7nkwygl7

Try https://dtan.xyz/e/nevent1qqsdsg6x7uujekac4ga7k7qa9q9sx8gqj7xzjf5w9us0dm0ghvf4ugsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsq4gu7tthengqq577mpdyezkxf90z25g8mvkf355ks2k67km0lwwqrqsqqqp7nkwygl7


Happy Bitcoin Infinity day.

No on is bullish enough.


GM! Any hardware wallet is strictly better than leaving your #Bitcoin on an exchange. If you’re a beginner, just pick one you like and can use comfortably for now and get your Bitcoin into cold storage ASAP, and then research more later. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good enough.
I love debating nerdy hardware wallet tradefoffs, but the truth is they are generally all pretty good and sadly there’s still millions of Bitcoin held by custodians.


Make Bitcoin Script Great Again


One of the guiding principles of nostr: https://nostrdesign.org/docs/guiding-principles/ nostr:note1aqxgsly4nwwtnfcfg8cuczg6amjawmz7hqz3qd6uazt95gy8lh5qjutpez


It seems we can't obtain rough consensus on what rough consensus means.


Introducing: Feel the Breez ⚡🌊

Your newsletter for all things Breez.

This edition, we discuss:

• 👀 The latest partners integrating P2P money
• 💧 How the Breez SDK got even better
• 🗣 Why Lightning is the common language of Bitcoin
• 📍 Where to meet the Breez team

Make sure you subscribe to get the newsletter delivered straight to your inbox!

🔗: https://breeztech.substack.com/p/001-feel-the-breez


We’ve pulled together a newsletter for Breezers. Hope you enjoy it ⚡🤙🫡🛹 nostr:note1dzankdfx2vvvl3jyrdxmlnjyef3ak23ydkknsvvqqfmqk7twa2hs2vqewp


auto-following on account creation is a mistake. especially for nostr clients. takes a bunch of agency away and puts the person in a defensive position of “why am i following this account?”

trending, search, and topics are far better leads to a follow.


"Running bitcoin" —Hal Finney


running http://lnvps.net/


“Rebalance at your own peril”
nostr:npub14hn6p34vegy4ckeklz8jq93mendym9asw8z2ej87x2wuwf8werasc6a32x
https://m.primal.net/KFyS.jpg


speed is the greatest feature...

nostr:note1n9mwhs4frvnzpuatw6wkzg47rzh2yj49kl728fr4lk8xqpzfl98qeqat5l


This is unerestimated in nostr.  The web won becasue of speed.

nostr:note1t836tjjsqefflez565lxfcqx5atpp3pkv0ulne4eg5c77z8rvq6qzy8c7s


New coding buddy! GM riga. https://i.nostr.build/O6stHAy7a99bJkyO.jpg


https://labour.fiatjaf.com/

nostr:npub13azv2cf3kd3xdzcwqxlgcudjg7r9nzak37usnn7h374lkpvd6rcq4k8m54 new POW relay for you.


Bro, Computer Science is fucking awesome. I’m enjoying this


New solo mining pool in town! I've set up a self-hosted public pool which you are free to use, no fees, no nothing, just like the original.

You can find it here: https://pool.gobrrr.me

This was a great learning experience for me as I had to build my very own custom image of bitcoin using Docker to meet my specific requirements.

Couldn't have done it without the work already done by Benjamin Wilson.

Also thanks to nostr:nprofile1qqs936kc97s4k4gqjnmltljgqns0uadh08d77t5mypg3anxkneks37gpzemhxue69uhhsmtj9e6hxetwdaehgu3wdaexwqg4waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8smtj9eex7cmtwvq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwphhyar9d4hkuetjduhxxmmdhdhm8r for the guide who gave me the idea, I didn't end up using all of it, but the traefik config was very handy.


Keep pushing the boundaries,  nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z 🙌
https://opensats.org/blog/vitor-pamplona-receives-lts-grant


The best part of Nostr is yet to come! Thank you OpenSats and all donors behind it.
nostr:nevent1qqs8y9nye6d9fjhj36tr7m5xpst000ewasc5zh8kxwrlfcce74cenhqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q0pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqxpqqqqqqzuh50un


🌍✨ Exciting News! We are thrilled to announce that we reached the mark of 100 merchants embracing the future in Madeira.

We have successfully helped local businesses on their bitcoin journey, from initial adoption to ongoing troubleshooting. By accepting bitcoin in their businesses, these merchants not only attract the community but also experience significant growth, which has led to overwhelmingly positive feedback. This word-of-mouth effect has drawn even more merchants to Bitcoin.

The exponential growth of bitcoin acceptance in Madeira is turning the region into a hotspot for bitcoin enthusiasts from around the globe. Visitors are eager to experience firsthand Madeira's thriving Bitcoin circular economy, and many are inspired to replicate this successful model in their own communities.

Together, we are fostering a brighter future for Bitcoin commerce!

#BitcoinAdoption #BitcoinCircularEconomy #BitcoinCommunity #Madeira #BTCmap

https://m.primal.net/KFeL.jpg


Get your unique subdomain Nostr address at https://www.nip-05.com
https://m.primal.net/KFTq.mov


Decentralized event compoents.  Cool.

Cool cool cool.

https://nostr-components.github.io/event/examples/ref.html?uri=https://pages.npub.info/glyphs/TESTNET_ENG_CAG/.nostr/event/6a372bac17545cd1b0072a4b3d0bcc434e2a4d9a8671e0561ad3fb1952581e79.json


Devs should also be designers.
Art/Design Training should go simultaneously with technical.

Why aren't more people interdisciplinary?

nostr:note1h9tupec5eunxcxz4a5ea2hjnympahjtxfxr534wemmjlcqz0g9as8k5ma2


The National Crime Agency is making some pretty bold claims on cryptocurrency and end-to-end encryption, but provides no data to back up its claims. I filed a freedom of information request to find out how it came up with its conclusions.

Make FOIA your self care routine 🤝 https://image.nostr.build/ca035847523e43058be6f98059ca968ac77fc24efa0af6541497c7f0811e0247.jpg


ZEUS v0.9.0-rc1 is now available for testing.

v0.9.0 highlights:

- New LSP service: Purchase channels in advance
- HWW / signing device support
- BOLT 12 offers + addresses (CLN)
- Pending HTLCs view
- New camera
- Layout improvements

## Links

Release notes: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.9.0-rc1

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.9.0-rc1-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.9.0-rc1-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.9.0-rc1.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.9.0-rc1.txt.sig

iOS

IPA: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.9.0-rc1.ipa
Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi https://image.nostr.build/73e4b3293171510717af9f4662a34a0ed19dc68776639b7a3a3a4484ab9e57a7.jpg


nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- if you were a good channel peer
- if you were built like a chiseled Olympian god
- how much you zapped them


 nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q looks like it might just have rolled out smart contracts over nostr and lightning.  Still learning, but it looks good!

https://yakihonne.com/smart-widget-checker?naddr=naddr1qvzqqqr4fupzpj7jw70mrg7xv8wzre2yf79lyhr6xjzcxxzq635jhuwvf4e2tvpfqq2ngjzwdvuxger8vajrxe6rw99xz4n3g9rxy0rzr0r


The latest Ark release brings new features and improvements, including covenant-less Ark implementation, offline payments, client SDKs, MutinyNet support, and substantial enhancements to our codebase and documentation.

https://arkdev.info/blog/ark-release-v0.2/


ZEUS is pleased to announce the integration of its lightning service provider, Olympus by ZEUS, into Alby Hub (nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm).

Alby Hub is a self-custodial, LDK-based Lightning node and web interface with a focus on connections to other web apps.

Read more about Alby Hub and the integration here:

https://blog.zeusln.com/olympus-alby-hub-integration/ https://image.nostr.build/90720e8ddcd488f4eebba7c53418275a216336a4cf3181501394ecc38b27b874.jpg


nostriga ❤🔥 https://github.com/orgs/nostrworld/projects/3/views/15


Is there a better FAQ for #nostr than this one? https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/


There is a reason why we are not building cathedrals anymore.


Bisq v2.1.0: Support Lightning Network as Additional Bitcoin Settlement Method

The latest Bisq 2 release, v2.1.0, brings support for the Lightning Network as an additional Bitcoin settlement method, a QR code scanner, upgraded chats, improved Tor startup, and more.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bisq-v2-1-0/


LOL.

NO.

BRO.

https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/markets/are-institutional-backers-changing-bitcoins-role-in-the-global-economy


Intelligence by itself doesn't get you very far. You need perseverance, courage, drive and many other things to succeed.

And if you don't want to end up like Bill Gates, you also need virtue.


real problems, but we’re not giving up

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◦	Bolt Machine ⏳🔜
	◦	Rust L402 ☑
	◦	Docker DLC ⏳🔜
#bitcoin


"Bitcoin has contracted out humans to keep it alive." —Marty Bent


The proof-of-work chain is itself self-evident proof that it came from the globally shared view. Only the majority of the network together has enough CPU power to generate such a difficult chain of proof-of-work. Any user, upon receiving the proof-of-work chain, can see what the majority of the network has approved. Once a transaction is hashed into a link that's a few links back in the chain, it is firmly etched into the global history.


Huddlers is a tool that dramatically simplifies the process of building high-performance Nostr apps.

https://docs.huddlers.dev/


🔥Block 857323: Important News of the Week

Here's what happened in Bitcoin last week, summarized in over 3,400 words. We appreciate each and every one of you who supports our free and independent reporting on a Bitcoin standard.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/857323/


I went through all of the top 30 relays this morning.  I had not fully realized how dependent we are on damus.  A huge thank you to will for creating this service.  Much of the rest of the network is in a  bad state of disrepair.  Try it yourself to see.  Also help nostr by running a relay, because, without the relay network, there would be no nostr.

https://m.primal.net/KCHW.png


Simple rework PR up. I also want to update your BOLT11 parser to the latest (it's buggy).

I need to think harder about your cursor API: my instinct is to split it into two types, one for reading, one for writing. But you do a lot of lookahead in your parsing, so the classic "mark cursor invalid if we hit an error" pattern doesn't fit. Hmm....


Rusty Russell is working on Nostr. We are now legitimized.
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not great not terrible

https://m.primal.net/KBoh.png

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I AM A NOSTR NOOB, TEACH ME WISE ONES

I want to love Nostr and use it more. My problem is discoverability - it’s very hard to recreate a social graph + algo that beats Twitter. I see less content here and people see my posts less, so I have fewer conversations. How do I bootstrap the nostr graph without so much drudgery?

Help nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc and anyone else I know in this place


mo' productivity mo' problems

https://m.primal.net/KBif.png


CoinJoin 🌀 piece from June.

Stainless steel, 50 LED's & fiber optic cable

PAO - Physical art only

https://image.nostr.build/b6ed35d4feb388d8bc2d5900c6d79f66fd0ec0cf7b17f236f827cd383b002ce3.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/b6ed35d4feb388d8bc2d5900c6d79f66fd0ec0cf7b17f236f827cd383b002ce3.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/18e6ee0a97f1f9735887a056702bf5d57f153a702feb391e43f8b8ff42957432.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/353a443c0e44173457eb075489183a4ed8980b73858e3133939d132ab79096af.jpg


All virtue is integral. You cannot take just one piece of it without the others, otherwise you end up with vice.

Prudence, or low time preference behavior, must be integrated with fortitude and justice, otherwise you just become a miser.
Fortitude, or courage, without prudence or temperance turns you into a degenerate gambler.
Justice without fortitude or temperance turns you into a keyboard warrior who never acts.

Seek virtue as a whole, not just the part that happens to be useful to you right now.


Nostr Smart Widgets from  nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q

https://v.nostr.build/Zqz8dleguHPlV6Uz.mp4


Looks like 2 / 9 StealthMiners that shipped in batch #1 appear to have hash board connection issues upon delivery and this gives me a moment of pause to reflect.

Ofcourse, I will do right by my fellow plebs interested in my project and already working on resolutions in way of troubleshooting, replacement, or refund for them.

I have enough hashboards on hand to build 18 more complete units.

Truth is, I work full time while attempting to build a school bus tiny home so I can sell my home in 2027 and I'm not sure how far I can scale to support complete builds. I certainly refuse to build something and say tough luck when you have issues with it.

The files are too big for most to print on retail printer sizes, so I am likely to pivot to making StealthMiner "kits".

Maybe a printed enclosure with PSU already installed along with assembly bolts, rubber feet, and fan screws.

The pleb miner will provide their own CB, hash board, fans, and source appropriate loki board from https://pivotalpleb.com/products/loki-kit and assemble.

What are your thoughts?


Lightning is the common language of the bitcoin world, and it's here to stay.

The best time to get into Lightning is now.

Always has been.

⚡⚡⚡

https://m.primal.net/KBXy.png


This fight shitcoin Monero vs. Lightning and Swan vs. Taproot Wizard is one of the things more ridiculous that I already saw. I still good I’m not waste my time with this and focus only in build. #bitcoin


🎧 Latest pod: Max Hillebrand (  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt ) is a Bitcoin builder, educator, and privacy advocate.

Max has contributed to open-source Bitcoin projects including BISQ, JoinMarket, and Wasabi Wallet, while also talking about individual freedom and self-sovereignty.

We dive straight into the concept of The Second Realm, which is focussed on building parallel economic systems in which sovereign individuals are empowered to pursue life, liberty and happiness without the harassment of the State.

Along the way we discuss anarchy, agorism, praxeology, and natural law.

Max is a wealth of knowledge and I enjoyed this conversation with him, I hope you do too.

https://www.thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/towards-liberty-and-the-second-realm-with-max-hillebrand


I've just published the draft NIP to bring highly secure DM and group messaging to Nostr via the MLS protocol.

I've been studying this space for months now and after looking at a lot of different options, MLS (messaging layer security) stood out as the right way to approach solving DMs and group messages. It's highly scalable, an internet standard, and allows for graceful upgrading over time.

Done right – this NIP allows us to build extremely secure, uncensorable messaging clients that have no centralized coordinators or servers. Which is what I plan to do next. 😉

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1427


The only Net-Zero they want is on your bank account balance.

Opt out.

#Bitcoin


https://github.com/voltagecloud/block-clock 👀


https://m.primal.net/HlGR.mp4
#memes


Interesting CTV could work with lock time for allow inheritance from #Bitcoin of a wallet to future generations. This already happens today with Liana.


EVERYBODY IS A SCAMMER

everybody wants something for nothing

everybody wants to print their own money

specially larperterians

https://m.primal.net/KAQB.png
https://m.primal.net/KAQC.png
https://m.primal.net/KAQD.png
https://m.primal.net/KAQE.png


nostr:npub1h0uj825jgcr9lzxyp37ehasuenq070707pj63je07n8mkcsg3u0qnsrwx8 takes Cashu integration to a whole new level by enabling monetization and spam prevention, and paving the way for paid nostr relays with ecash


"A fool and their leveraged Bitcoin are soon parted." —Caitlin Long


The proof-of-work chain is the solution to the synchronisation problem, and to knowing what the globally shared view is without having to trust anyone.


Concept > PoC > Pre-Alpha > Beta > Candidate release > Official Release. #bitcoin


Coming soon!

#nostr Safebox

A Python implementation of #nsac (or nutsack) a concept invented by nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft (NIP-60+61).

A #nsac is a ‘wallet’ that exists as encrypted events across relays, only accessible by the corresponding #nsec.  It uses redundant providers, relays,mints and blossom servers in a way that only the #nsac holder can access the info.

I would love to have this mentioned at #nostriga unconference nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg https://image.nostr.build/3de51b4d8e5a1663b3b854bb3376e64b90cbbf9a6c06e309f61f45f5fce148ba.jpg


"We’ve built something which works really well. It fulfills the dream of the early days of the internet, web, and Web 2.0. An open interoperable internet, by and for the users."

What a difference giving nostr a postiive message (social app protocol) rather than a negative one (fighting censorship) makes.

nostr:note1qcw5jys7tyzvssdlfx2y09ermnu4zm72q84qpwu75wyqj8v6868qvdwvnr


GitHub is down. We’ve already a solution using #Nostr, right?


In keeping with our commitment to supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem, OpenSats is pleased to announce a new round of grants focused on Bitcoin Core development.
https://opensats.org/blog/caring-for-bitcoin-core


Announcing $1.3m pre-seed investment from  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and
Asymmetric VC in SimpleX Chat 🚀

https://simplex.chat/blog/20240814-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v6-private-routing-new-user-experience.html

Also SimpleX Chat v6.0 stable is now released with the new user experience and private message routing – details in the post.


It’s all coming together.

The next 12 months will look like a turbo-charged version of the past 24 months.

#nostr


NIP-29 Group Chat Web Client

https://groups.nip29.com/

https://m.primal.net/JzXg.png


I made it into NOBS this week! Mission accomplished
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It’s happening https://github.com/max21dev/groups #nostr 👀


We need more designers to work on FOSS projects if we want more ppl to use FOSS projects.

We need to fund designers to work on FOSS projects the same way we fund Devs to work on FOSS projects, if we want designers to work on FOSS projects.


GM, new 9.8 CVE Windows TCP/IP RCE dropped today. Update your Windows devices asap.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38063


NIP-60+61 are being implemented left and right. Love to see it 🔥🔥🔥🔥

nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5 is a beast, and very clear thinker; can’t wait to see what this implementation unlocks

nostr:note1e93ac62e98l8qrlf4nc749u2hy4gzdat808fhvne2aygkvprruxs02gdgr


Simplex Chat is very popular in the Nostr community; whenever someone posts a note asking which chat app is secure, many people recommend Simplex Chat. We also think Simplex Chat is a great app.

So, many people ask what is the difference between Keychat and Simplex Chat? Is Keychat's security as good as Simplex Chat's? Is it really possible to create a chat app as secure as Simplex Chat on Nostr? Why not just use Simplex Chat? Why reinvent the wheel?

A common misconception in the Nostr community is that Nostr is not suitable for private things.

"Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all." — Signal Founder Moxie https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving%C2%A0

This is because the encryption process is completed on the client side, and relays only pass the encrypted messages.

Keychat and Simplex Chat both use the Signal protocol to encrypt messages, so both meet the following security requirements 1-4:

Anti-Forgery
Anti-Forgery ensures that the sender of a message is verifiable and the message has not been tampered with.

End-to-End Encryption
End-to-end encryption ensures that only the sender and receiver can decrypt and read the message content, protecting it from unauthorized access by servers or other network devices.

Forward Secrecy
Forward secrecy ensures that even if the current key is compromised, historical messages cannot be decrypted, since each message uses a new encryption key, which is deleted after use.

Break-in Recovery
Break-in Recovery ensures that if the current key is compromised, future messages cannot be decrypted, and the system can recover from the attack. This feature is also known as backward secrecy.

Metadata Privacy
Protecting the privacy of communication involves more than just protecting the content of messages; it also includes protecting the identities of the communication parties and other data.

Regarding the fifth point, metadata privacy. The designs of Keychat and Simplex Chat are different.

Simplex’s metadata privacy protection scheme

"Simplex chat is the first messenger without user IDs."

“To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.”

“Temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers

SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise addresses and credentials for each user contact or group member.

It allows to deliver messages without user profile identifiers, providing better meta-data privacy than alternatives.”

We can understand this mechanism as, if a Simplex Chat user has 10 friends, they have 10 IDs, using different IDs with different friends?

Keychat’s metadata privacy protection scheme

Current chat applications and email have forgotten that an address is not the same as an ID, treating the ID as the address. Emails and current chat applications send messages as [from: Alice's ID to: Bob's ID]. Regardless of how your geographical address changes, when Alice sends an email to Bob, it’s always [from: Alice's ID to: Bob's ID]. This compromises metadata privacy.

However, letters work differently; they are [from: Alice's current geographical address to: Bob's current geographical address].

Keychat separates the receiving address and sending addresses from the ID, and the receiving address and sending addresses are also different. Keychat messages are [from: Alice's one-time sending address to: Bob's almost one-time receiving address]. This makes it difficult for outsiders and relay administrators to determine who is sending messages to whom.

Which scheme do you think is easier to understand and better protects metadata privacy?

Finally, Keychat also uses ecash sat as a stamp for messages, with relays funded by stamp revenue to sustain operations.


Just wild. I successfully used a relay in China to make a Lightning payment. https://image.nostr.build/214f611aec3aee133d0bcf8473869dac589721ccf15b9e606adec5b62c10d427.jpg


👀
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Got my first highlight zap. Crazy to think you can earn money just for sharing interesting snippets from articles on the web.

Maybe in the future you could add an lnurl to your article’s metadata, and the highlighter can automatically add zap splits for your highlight so the original author could get rewarded as well. https://i.nostr.build/z0Up11yE5q4p2Yno.jpg


Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world

Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link

Feel free to spread far and wide 😉

*************

Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network

Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024

Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.

The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.

What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.

That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.

The Decentralized Solution

Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.

Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.

Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.

It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.

Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr

This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.

The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.

Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.

Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.

At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:

I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.

Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'

Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."

Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."

Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."

"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."

For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.

This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.

Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:

[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.

The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."

Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.

Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.

https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/


LFG 🔑🔑🔑
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There’s needs to be a clearer distinction for degrees of open source I think… unless of course they already exist and I just don’t know them.

I guess “source viewable” is one I hear often. But there also needs to be a “closed development, but open code” version I think. Like just “open code” or something maybe. I don’t know but I feel like the demands of open source projects are growing, and users expect it to be exactly a certain way, and the ecosystem is varied enough that it might be useful to have distinctions for these things.

I don’t fault them for being closed development though. But I get why people wouldn’t like it being called “open source” but then finding out they don’t allow contributions or heavily control input from outside.


oPeN sOuRcE
https://image.nostr.build/1d02a9da642b866253469ea0c3c797ea1219f2f017d124ee10aea0a22002e7ca.jpg


🎯
If you say your project is open source then it must have MIT licensee or GFY

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🔥💪 nostr:note1fjfd0n5j5e6l2fz0hnrk90dqlkcfwd7xd6du7jf6wdhaeqnsekmsxhxe75


And this
https://blog.zeusln.com/olympus-lightning-pub-integration/


👀 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28553 #bitcoin


I love clients that have an "undo" window.

Don't post immediately. Let me undo whatever I did for a couple of seconds, and if I don't, broadcast it. Prevents a lot of fuck-ups.
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While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.

The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.

The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.

It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and  "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".

While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/


GOING TO KEEP CALLING IT LIKE I SEE IT REGARDLESS OF POTENTIAL BACKLASH.

MORE PEOPLE SHOULD.


nostr content is becoming more diverse & interesting imo

gradually then suddenly


2.5 sat/vB

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Fiat lets people stay in the realm of rhetoric and never progress past to truth.


Still alpha, but ShockWallet is already the best Lightning wallet as a daily driver by far imo

Super fast and reliable, its not a mobile node so no waiting to boot or graph syncs that cause failures

Using Nostr real-time sync is a handy flex too, one wallet on desktop phone 🤌 https://video.nostr.build/fd3ab3cd55bed1337cf1361e14cc8dd18de279a8a2724b6a9a15244ae222d5ad.mp4


🔜 #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/e60811c79931591c8ff91b2b117a09f204b2550dd031eab63506582c5c07291a.jpg


nostr development wins when each developer picks a focused problem and absolutely crushes and polishes the solution

e.g. if you’re building a client to do X, it doesn’t also have to have a social media feed


If anyone needs to get around Apple's Zap blocking in nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955, I've started hosting nostr:npub1k92qsr95jcumkpu6dffurkvwwycwa2euvx4fthv78ru7gqqz0nrs2ngfwd's workaround script website on my server too. GFY #Apple.

https://damuszap.oxtr.dev/


Exciting news! Openvibe version 1.3.0 is now available! 🎉

We've added tons of handy little improvements to make the experience even better. Update the app and share your thoughts with us!

And now, we will dive into the big new features for next update! 🔥 https://image.nostr.build/671958833cbc914a0b2b9e1e81047e647c8e05e44cb4726e12e33b5096dae34c.jpg


EU is fucked !


Two things on Nostr I don’t find anywhere else:
1) actionable info just in general, all social media and news is just designed for engagement, usually rage bait. It’s rarely helpful.
2) particularly the actionable health and wellness people have found improved their lives. Sun in the eyes has been a big mood unlock for me and if I must be inside I bought lots warm LED lights and threw out all fluorescents. Don’t live in a dungeon anymore.


A Nostr browser? https://asaitoshiya.github.io/brostr/src/


Relay feeds could be so much better than this: https://www.collabfc.com/


A lot of people self sabotage when they're about to win. don't be one of those people.


another reason that I like #subkeys

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Great idea! Best used in conjunction with timestamps to prove notes were written well prior to the coins being taken.

Amethyst supports OpenTimestamps. Although every time I timestamp a note amethyst seems to get stuck in a crash at startup state...

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This is not chaos

It's also not decentralized

Spot the single control point

https://i.nostr.build/qQ87FgBaNXih6FDc.jpg


Could do that with your NIP-60 nutsack

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Thinking about locking 1 BTC in my nsec as a proof of key safety. If somebody gets my key, they can steal the 1BTC. And if they do, I will know my key has leaked.

On Nostr, unless you monitor your own posts VERY closely, you never know if your key has leaked or not. That creates lots of liabilities for businesses and some risks for users. Adding a value that is appropriate to the size of the account could work as attack notifier. And business might even be able to insure that amount with cyber insurance. 🤔


This is an awesome idea.

A canary for your nsec powered by fake ecash

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I freaking love the Builder software design pattern. When paired with protocols and inheritance, it’s the perfect combo to provide a flexible, easy-to-use framework for building Nostr events, especially when it’s an event kind that shares common tags with other event kinds. Custom emoji tags is a good example that is used across at least three event kinds. This approach has solved a long-standing gripe I’ve had with how rigidly Nostr SDK for Apple Platforms handled event creation.

https://github.com/nostr-sdk/nostr-sdk-ios/pull/175


https://m.primal.net/Jvzo.png Zapping in progress...  nostr:npub1g24xhk0qx6za23gyd4wg87d399kf7vnn2yh2umaqf0q8kd6tn8mq7wpfjl


"Everyone has got to believe in something. Why not believe in something verifiable and unforgeable." —Hass McCook


If more and more Bitcoin profit-making enterprises can donate to opensats, and opensats can support more Bitcoin and Nostr ecosystem innovations, it will create a positive innovation ecosystem. Thanks to #[0]  for the great work 🫡
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We need more enterprise relay devs. The situation is dire. Relay operators cannot do this alone.

If you are a server-side dev, start a new or join a current relay codebase and apply to OpenSats.


GM! Current state of Nostr in a nutshell 🐶🐾🫡☕☕☕☕ https://i.nostr.build/iVmXIKAVntpTTGbh.jpg  nostr:note1wnc0wqz6he5dqan58u2v9uccr53fgljtdxpj58653l3mdlz20vaq7l3vg7


Nostr Testnet Wallet.  Probably Nothing.

https://m.primal.net/Jvry.png


Nostr Testnet Wallet.  With added "Get Coins" goodness.

https://m.primal.net/JvsT.png


atproto, which is the identity system of Bluesky, is an anagram of taproot, which is the identity system of nostr.

There are no coincidences.


I hope some folks continue the open source project. Mutiny Wallet is too good to disappear.. I'm willing to donate to the development.


I didn't expect the crackdown on free speech online to escalate so quickly, with censorship and jail time becoming the norm. Looks like the influx of refugees to #nostr will be even faster than we thought!


I've made the final decision to skip all bitcoin events, even the smaller ones. Everything feels compromised! Until organizers stop taking money from spooks or promoting VCs, there's no point in attending. Sad times. Nobody stays humble nowadays.


Life hack: you can control your attention, your opinions, and your feelings.


Bitcoin is the Internet’s native money.✌ nostr:note10wmgzjsx07nmdc0tw068xczewhxphgxm5e33gvk6c5evfgp2rcts68vvuu


Opensats is a good option for people who need it. But it does mean KYC and the IRS has a honeypot of all the devs.

Which isn't good, but not everyone knows how to bootstrap or run their own business, and infrastructure can't be easily monetized. IMO, grant research money should be reserved for deep research such as frontiers in cryptography, not your next cute level app.

Society in general has a crisis of over specialization and not enough "wears many hats", (individuals with multiple skill sets), a trait that comes with the territory of running self sovereign businesses.

Majority of population is silo'd into 1 track work as employee for corporation mindset. Sad.


Thanks Darth


Here's a quick video of  nostr:npub1seerapp785zmhxm80js9vep6680ekcqu0tpac92q659vdftwvqustrexkf from startup and importing key. Still a lot todo, but coming along 😃 https://m.primal.net/Jupd.mp4


Someone already created a system hardware compatible for storage #Nostr keys? 🤔


Another option is to reduce the number of free transactions allowed per block before transaction fees are required.  Nodes only take so many KB of free transactions per block before they start requiring at least 0.01 transaction fee. The threshold should probably be lower than it currently is. I don't think the threshold should ever be 0.  We should always allow at least some free transactions.


Very important pill about "Disobedience"
https://stacker.news/items/642780


Do not think that Trump or whoever is your favourite puppet this season supporting #bitcoin means that you are any more free or safe.

No politician supports bitcoin - a p2p money.

They support price exposure for the masses that pay capital tax on it. nostr:note1rs0r8dlggamrtaxq44xh8kxgqzy9p7pvvtmc0vgdpm4r3w4gdjgq445pzy


This is my current #grapheneOS setup.

I have three distinct profiles on my phone, each serving a specific purpose.

𝗠𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: This is my daily driver, free and open-source apps only. It has everything I need for my daily needs. For privacy reasons, I've excluded #bitcoin and #nostr related applications from this profile to maintain a low-profile and avoid leaking my online identity if someone were to snatch the phone out of my hands.

𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: This secondary profile is designed as a decoy. I've installed a bunch of normie apps to make it more realistic, and some closed-source ones that I occasionally need. I rarely use this profile. I only switch to it when absolutely necessary, if you know what I mean.

𝗖𝘆𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗽𝘂𝗻𝗸 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗳𝗶𝗹𝗲: This is where my true online identity lies, and where all the bitcoin and nostr apps reside. TOR, E2E chats, secret notes, and files are all here. I only access this profile when I'm alone and confident it's safe to do so.

All profiles have different passwords, obviously. Fingerprint disabled. And I've customized the color scheme of the menus for each one of them, so I can easily tell which profile I'm on.

While inside the Decoy Profile, you cannot see the installed apps from the other two profiles, but you can see that there are indeed two additional profiles on the device. I've taken extra steps to obscure this information by changing the profile picture on all three profiles to solid dark color that blends with the UI, and removed the profile names by using a invisible character, making them appear identical (i know it's not 100% fool proof but it's the best we can do).

All profiles have a pure black wallpaper, and the home screen has no icons, folders or widgets (except on the Decoy Profile). To access an app, I simply scroll up and open it from the default drawer, which displays all installed apps on that profile. This approach saves battery life and adds a slight bit of privacy.

Each profile has its own VPN running continuously, using different IP addresses, with killswitch turned on. All my free and open-source (#foss) apps are installed via Obtainium (aka downloads straight from the source). The closed-source 'normie' apps used in the Decoy Profile are from the Aurora Store (aka downloads from Play Store without needing an account).

Every app installed has most of its permissions stripped away, leaving only the absolute minimum required. Storage and contact scopes are always used.

Microphone, camera, NFC, bluetooth and location services, always turned off, unless absolutely needed for a brief moment.

Finally, I have disabled auto-updates on all apps and the operating system itself (by disabling 'System Updater' app). I want to be in control of my device, I choose when to update. I can't risk crowdstrike-like updates, so I wait a few days before updating.

#privacy #cybersecurity #opsec

https://media.tenor.com/yMj4zV5BtDQAAAAM/mr-robot-rami-malek.gif


The US just recommended a 30-year prison sentence for alleged Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov.

Sterlingov's case became known as the case to "put cryptocurrency tracing on trial", as much of the evidence presented was collected using Chainalysis' blockchain analysis software Reactor – The prosecution "haven’t pointed to any smoking-gun digital evidence retrieved from Sterlingov’s possessions or devices", as WIRED reported following Sterlingov's arrest.

Chainalysis described Sterlingov's guilty verdict as setting precedent for "Chainalysis blockchain analytics being used by prosecutors as evidence when they take criminals to court", arguing that the verdict "affirms the ways in which our solutions have become the industry standard, made possible by our partners in government who use our tools everyday to fight illicit activity".

The only problem: experts believe that the government's got the wrong guy, and that the jury has convicted a user of Bitcoin Fog as its operator – arguing that Chainalysis' tools are "flawed" and "shouldn't be trusted to convict defendants when they face decades in prison".

2024 is the year of dangerous precedents in which not just your right to privacy is on the line, but the very question of how much science matters in a court of law when it comes to BTC.

All the tea:

https://www.therage.co/bitcoin-fog-sentencing/


This is my application for the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph meme fellowship:
This is basically how Cross-input Signature Aggregation (CISA) works.
😂
https://video.nostr.build/b908e7a8d44079a52a7ec8eca84c79662f2e69657f8c699d22d2d0ee05b3abab.mp4


Open Source software and Sovereign Computing is the Future!!

We just need to keep making Sovereign Computing more and more user friendly.

This has always been my aim.

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It was blocked in Russia and Venezuela today.


https://z.nip-05.com soon we will add paid relay with every purchase.


In a few years, we will see an increase in global censorship, growing every day. Be prepared. What happened today with Signal is a clear warning that things are going to get worse from now on. Focus on #Nostr and #Bitcoin


BLUE CHECKS WILL TELL YOU NOSTR WILL NEVER WORK BECAUSE OF NETWORK EFFECT THEN ASK YOU TO SUBSCRIBE TO THEIR SHITTY NEWSLETTER.


No, #nostr doesn’t solve arrests in the UK! Yes, it’s censorship resistant and you can say whatever you want on here but the privacy and leaked IPs makes the govt easily find you out and put in jail!


This is IMHO a better branding for Nostr.  "The Social App Protocol". It makes it look like nostr is not fighting something, but rather, bringing something forth.

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My favorite 3 companies/projects in bitcoin:

-BTCPayServer
-Strike
-BullBitcoin


MORE CLIENTS SHOULD SUPPORT DISPOSABLE NPUBS. AMETHYST IS LEADING THE WAY HERE. WOULD BE THE SINGLE BIGGEST PRIVACY WIN FOR ONLINE SPEECH ACROSS THE BOARD.

NORMALIZE SINGLE USE DISPOSABLE IDENTITIES. AS THE REST OF THE INTERNET MOVES TOWARD LINKING EVERY ACTION TO LEGAL IDENTITIES, NOSTR REPRESENTS A BRIGHTER PATH.


I know


Don't overthink which bitcoin startup to launch! Integrate #bitcoin into your existing skillset and business.


What do you think, we should do? Sell our souls for money or stay with ours principles?


I already read many times about Mutiny post. We’re living in a paradox moment in the Bitcoin space.


☢ Amplify the Toxicity ☢

Too many NPC Bicoiners this cycle.


How to optimize your #Bitcoin privacy and avoid overpaying on fees?

Let's dive into the UTXO labeling and coin control features ⬇
https://youtu.be/UgPupgtTwyA


Yes


Make sense. High salaries, maybe?


In this week, I saw many developers and others sectors changing from Bitcoin-only to Shitcoin companies. What’s going on? What’s happening with Bitcoin-only companies? It is money (FIAT) or principles? 🤔 #bitcoin


Lightning Is the Common Language of the Bitcoin Economy ⚡

 nostr:npub1ey6qdmvzcgcsr883m9nspzz0mm037l26xtardzcskfsvc6gc7jssm9szvp joins  nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk to discuss all things Bitcoin, Lightning, and the Breez SDK.

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/596/


DON'T FORGET TO HAVE FUN FOLKS, LIFE IS TOO SHORT


Lightning has never been dead and never will be! I am confident that with more bold innovators stepping up, we’ll find the solutions needed to scale it to the masses😉


🎯
P.S. Glad that I am not only the one who thinks this way. Phew
https://image.nostr.build/5089f7354730fd86b18510e73b75b57a835c67f6560c967b0dc6fbcc0d62e015.jpg
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what if a wiki page had... a chat?

what if the chat could be scoped within a particular version of the topic or you could see conversations across the entire topic?

a chat within "pablo's entry of 'nostr' which is a subset of "chat about 'nostr'"

https://cdn.satellite.earth/b97eb77009adaae32f92d168d989b8ca481730762dd3d4bc2661e7a40fb11fd8.mp4


the first epoch of nostr has focused almost exclusively on clients, but the clients have not hardly made the effort to enable relays as a paid service, and the big funders of nostr dev have not seen many relay devs because we are the hidden cinderellas , only relay devs who also do front end get any attention from anyone

this is going to changne in this second epoch... too many of the problems plaguing nostr now are relay related


“Why would anyone need to be anonymous online?”
“Why do you need private communications?”
“Why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?”
“WHY WOULD ANYONE NEED NOSTR?”

Imperialist Totalitarian teabags really outdoing themselves. https://i.nostr.build/ed6EUH9CGhdYFJuy.jpg


https://image.nostr.build/9a90d152a7e58ac66fd6801f813a05f154d9569a72d3bc037823172b2af02dae.png

Wouldn't you like to get zapped ⚡ directly from your github profile?
🍴 It's just a fork away.

Fork -> https://github.com/nostrize/github-connect
Follow the instructions on the README and you have a connection between your github account and #nostr


close. 5-10* years is a more accurate timeline and understand that the vast majority of “Bitcoin Companies” raising today will fail to return investor funds, let alone outperform #Bitcoin.

VC is charity. Buy #Bitcoin https://i.nostr.build/xtZbvcGkiZeVmPmg.jpg


#SolarBit will enable 100% self-sufficient, fully automated offgrid mining with a #bitaxe, powered by the sun. 🌞⛏
 https://video.nostr.build/0fa438b4be4d929c0cff930d9e6a257231d441815b908238bd45ee17fa843020.mp4

But, how does that work?

Well, it's an automated Suntracker which will wake up in the morning, position the panel towards the sun and adjust itself based on the suns movement, so the panel can produce the most energy which will power the Bitaxe and charge the battery.

The charging controller unit regulates the battery and turns off the miner if there's not enough juice left so it can start again once the sun comes out again.

In case of rain detection, the tracker will enter rain mode and position the panel horizontally to protect the components and add wind resistance.

The base design still needs a bit of polishing, then it's time to design the accessories like the balcony mount and do some test prints.


If you run #1Password on a #macOS machine, update asap #CVE202442219

https://support.1password.com/kb/202408a/


Unsure outbox will help here, and may make certain things worse.  I am personally very happy with primal.

nostr:note1wnggss95x6m0my47c9qgwqavfc59jy3kx0xad3ske2r9ht4jxtrsxsz922


Let’s go https://blog.rust-lang.org/2024/08/08/Rust-1.80.1.html #rust #bitcoin


Phahaha
https://m.primal.net/Jsdh.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Jsdi.jpg


Financial Freedom Report #35 is out now. We highlight:

- Nigeria | Regime Sends Security Forces to Quell Cost of Living Protests
- Libya | Russian Counterfeiting Fueling Dinar Devaluation
- Somalia | Targets Press Freedom Through Financial Repression

In Bitcoin news:
- Fedi | Launches its Community Superapp
- Strike | Launches BTCPay Server Plugin
- Mutiny Wallet | Winding Down Operations by End of Year

Read the latest report here: https://hrf.org/category/financial-freedom/


Help HRF get #Nostr on the SxSW stage next year.

Proposed panel: nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

Vote here: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/155651?mc_cid=10f0895642&mc_eid=16188732cd

https://m.primal.net/Jscm.jpg


"Every profitable bitcoin business should support the open source contributors that make this movement possible. We are incredibly grateful for Build Asset Management choosing to lead by example with a long term commitment to the OpenSats General Fund." —  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

https://opensats.org/blog/donation-commitment-from-build-asset-management


#asknostr
nostr:nevent1qqs2zrsqcln5zwk6prj7kjzzdu6zhl7zm9g9yz60463c4sw99jqypwcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczypj9dqde6pnmrgmzcjlw3h0lnp7jgek5nyzuym9clmz7d7mn4awggqcyqqqqqqgsgasve


#glyph art with explorer, nprofile, ngit and otc market, on bitcoin #testnet4

https://pages.npub.info/glyphs/TESTNETARTAAA/


https://cdn.satellite.earth/21c85ac6117ee34c4480b655f50a940921266ed57fbc69b782463804b3354cda.mov
Exploring #V4V UX for app releases.
#zaptheapp


#zaptheapp on nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8
https://cdn.satellite.earth/8e7f618c500ec94fa712836915ffc8a57e9d5df4318050f2e338499e06c66c50.png


🚬🥃 THE CONFAB 06: Starting Fresh with Start9 🥃🚬
W/ @_MattHill_

- The 4th Rewrite of @start9labs OS
- Solving for Remote Connectivity
- Making Backups Simple As
- Did Start9 Start as a #bitcoin node or home server?
- NEW PRODUCT: The Start9 Router

https://video.nostr.build/4943e096644ef51590ebdab98e2d830d866626e362b727a4b9efd7d9723f596b.mp4

Choose your podcast player by following this link ▶: https://ungovernablemisfits.com/latest/


Good morning!

https://m.primal.net/JsEa.png


Which theme are you rocking on your ZEUS wallet? https://image.nostr.build/33f0fc108b967ff61742836d39ed8d11f14391c2dff11cb9f29eed8ed45a054c.gif


Keychat not only draws design inspiration from the postal system but also from Bitcoin wallets.

1.
Bitcoin wallets use a seed phrase.

Similarly, Keychat uses a seed phrase.

2.
Bitcoin allows users to maintain multiple wallets, enhancing privacy.

Similarly, Keychat users can have multiple IDs, enhancing privacy.

3.
Bitcoin wallet users can use their own Bitcoin node.

Similarly, Keychat users can use their own Nostr relay.

4.
Bitcoin wallets do not reuse addresses and continuously update their receiving addresses for better privacy.

Similarly, Keychat continuously updates its receiving and sending addresses to protect metadata and enhance privacy.

5.
Sending Bitcoin requires a transaction fee, which prevents spam and increases miner income. Especially as block rewards diminish over time, transaction fees will become the primary source of income for miners, allowing mining operations to continue sustainably.

Similarly, sending Keychat messages requires ecash sat stamps, which prevent spam and generate revenue for relay operators, enabling long-term operations. nostr:note16gv0dfkfaj2cvyujxlk9thckm4vy63r9vl0hpcn9473flca9qqqscm583q


Don't know about you, but I will 100% be purchasing a nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq5xamn8ghj7dnvv45xs7tywde8g6rpvakkjuekw46nvar4vdhxgan6wumkxatzwpckk6rk0puhjdm2da5k7ce5x4kkkumjx3jkzepwdahxjmmwqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wd9hxvmckqw0xz router next year.

HT nostr:nprofile1qqsfvzdsjdzsm4lq47ecjcv6ekhju6sddqtujd2j7wg3upd4ptnnu0gpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue06rnawm

https://fountain.fm/episode/vJ1IPqcSdQPOzXroeB1C


The #glyphs protocol has reached v0.0.1.  I have decided to make it backwards compatible with the Runes protocol.  Prunable OP_RETURNs will be allowed but inscriptions in the block chain will not be included in the protocol.  Optinally enum 251=1 can be added to a rune, to indicate a glyph.  As such, glyphs should be considered live on testnet and mainnet.


The good life is pretty simple.

You're only here for a very short amount of time.

1. Figure out what gets you out of bed
2. Find a way to add value to others
3. Be consistent as fuck

Put the profits into bitcoin 🍊

Don't overthink it.


I guess most people dont remember this.  But this happened.  Satoshi asked Mike Hearn to send him bitcoin as a test, and promised to send them back.

Mike sent 32.51 BTC

Satoshi sent back 32.51 + 50 BTC = 82.51 BTC

Some time after that, Mike became disillusioned with bitcon and rage quit the project.

82.51 BTC (worth around $5 million) are still there

https://mempool.space/address/1JuEjh9znXwqsy5RrnKqgzqY4Ldg7rnj5n

https://plan99.net/~mike/satoshi-emails/thread1.html

nostr:note1wcaym3helvp2kc3qtwx975egkmgreg92f8fs5vw3j2e3p5l3l2hq8wcq2v


So much of the world is the way it is because of small frictions.


More grants. More projects. More options. More freedom.
🌊 💜
https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-august-2024


More Nostr Web Components, fully customizable and with interactive examples: https://unpkg.com/nostr-web-components/demo.html

No build steps required.


Opensats has conflict of interests! The best way for them is to restructure it! Otherwise it’s a proxy none profit that pumps their investments with tax breaks !


Everyone got triggered by the obvious model ! Damn, we can’t move on until the moral improves ! Stop simping and being someone’s tools!
https://m.primal.net/Jrev.jpg


IMHO Saylor knows his stuff, and is a very sharp mind.  He is only in his first bitcoin epoch tho, but ahead of most at that time. He also brings unique knowledge to the table.  I think Odell has a conflict of interest in running his VC firm and OpenSats.  Nostr could have done a lot better than it has, with the resources it was very kindly given.  Especially wrt infrastructure.  Ultimately he harms himself by not going full gun on growing the eco system, as much as he could.  Saylor tends to be right, and he's not going to throw money at something that he cant verify is going to help.  He also runs a software business and knows that most ideas are bad ideas, and well intended engineers trying to tinker with something normally break 2 things for every 1 thing they fix (nostr is getting that way), and he doesnt want bitcoin to go that path.  Wise.


👀 nostr:note136rsnm57394mrmszmh30pvl7tvgchn4cuz4z5a7cpw3y9sw97n6sx47ha2


two days in a row this community has shown how ignorant they are to developers and their struggle in the bitcoin/nostr ecosystem.

the beauty of bitcoin is that even if you only care about ngu, you are financially incentivized to support the open source developers working on it. the number can't keep going up if it doesn't continue to exist. saylor is just a dipshit and hasn't seen this yet. fwiw i don't think saylor is a good actor in this space.

i personally know odell and know that he really does care about the developer community within this space. whether he has a for-profit company that benefits on bitcoin's continuing to exist or not, it is in his own benefit, as well as this whole community's, to support the developers working on this technology that is changing the world. that could be financially or just with a handshake and an attaboy; it all matters.

those suggesting otherwise should really consider whether they are really doing anything for the community. if they really want to fight against what they see as bad actors in the space, then be the PR you want to see in the world. #learntocode

nostr:nevent1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyz8gwz0wn6ykhv0wqtw79u9nled3rz7whrs252nhmq96yskpch6022e8kp4


I'm gonna tell you a life hack.

- go to duckduckgo
- open their AI chat thing
- choose one of 4 models (got 4o mini is great)
- chat with that thang

Free. No tracking. No accounts. Open source models included. Did I say free? And no accounts.

I have an OpenAI account but this is the only thing I've been using for a few weeks. Privacy feels great.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&t=fpas&ia=chat


With #bitcoin core merging Testnet4. Wait to see many projects supporting this. Stay tuned 👀


THIS IS HUGE!  The first working testnet in 13 years.

https://x.com/BitcoinMerges/status/1821237382626046219


People really don't remember how bad things were before hardware wallets.

Lots of hypothetical attacks that require access to hardware, but it's still MUCH better than how things were.

We should keep improving, of course.


ANN: #glyphs pre-testing phase has been successful

Pre-alpha: the first season will start on bitcoin testnet4, 4 months after the bitcoin halving

Glyphs of length 12-26 characters can be chosen for the next season.  With 11 charachters, one season later.  All glyphs are upper case letters with spacers.  Domain names can be registered too, but they will only be for test purposes.

Glyphs and coins will have no value, but can be traded for fun games.

Indexers can start indexing from the next season, which will hopefully coincide with testnet4 launch.

The next season will be for indexing and testing.  If all goes well a full testnet launch, or even mainnet four months after the first indexing.

Full nostr integration is expected and already largely complete.


BITCOIN PARK FIRESIDE:  nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m X  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx

https://cdn.satellite.earth/335e33f9115378783d1cc7d7d18874503d548e35fd57ca4baa72bf8afa293d40.mp4


NOSTR Blogs
https://thewildhustle.npub.pro/

NOSTR Blogs
---

If your a casual nostr user and an avid SN user, you should be crossposting to Nostr from SN.
Your crossposts are automatically assembled into a blog as shown in [npub.pro](https://npub.pro/)

https://image.nostr.build/6faa9bbcb7f2d01acf32366b9811d8c8cfe1c07f4bc797c5918588abea65a5c1.png

Even if you dont ever plan on "using nostr"
A nicely compiled and customized place to store and show your SN posts makes for a nice proof of work piece. Zaps are enabled on your blog, crossposting will help you gain followers and zaps, from a growing community of like minded individuals (and without knowing it).

Add your npub.pro website to your nostr profile.
Link your SN lightning address to your nostr account.
Bookmark your SN Article Blog.

https://image.nostr.build/b5a7a95956ef3c37b61713494539565ff6c9a9be132f4b4cee1ddbe0563b282f.png

And if you want to get fancy...
Occasionally share your nostr blog on SN with updates.

You'll be crossposting your Nostr blog from SN to Nostr while creating a nostr blog post...... How many birds can a pleb kill, with one stone.

Share your SN/Nostr blog below, and you may or may not get zapped.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/638048


https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/onion-messaging-dos-threat-mitigations/1058 #bitcoin


Bostr is an attack on nostr.  Literally.

nostr:note1827fqm36jyhhewdp8t4m2lggxx2vkflv0xl56dsqy5vs3gmt6lpsd2rjz3


If your'e running a relay and have a WAF i would recommend blocking

"Bostr; The nostr relay bouncer; http s://github.com/Yonle/bostr"

user agent string until these issues are resolved.
nostr:nevent1qqsdfyev7zf2rvw9t8tun72gxmn686hu768q5rt4l5aj2tukj74ca2szyp3lucccm3v9s087z6qslpkap8schltk427zfgqgrn3g2menq5zw6qcyqqqqqqg4j8vw6


nostr:npub1x3azxuysp5vmfer4vgs4jn5tmfcx4ew8sh0qnev7gczljxsr7jwqa3g4el Bostr is too aggressive, i just blocked a few bostr instances and i dropped 5k connections to my relay, why so many connections?


When Nostr layer 2? nostr:note19tcdvg9luhqjhzj8mtgsqrcylzv3c7eej43y87dv8ue2wcluqfeqp0zdn2


About 85% of nostr's relay network is now offline.  We are down to about only 10 relays that are still working well.  This number could go either way in the next year, up to 20, or down to 5.  There are competing forces of centralization, decenralization and trickle down economics at play.  I hope more people run relays and the network gets more support.

https://m.primal.net/JrAQ.png


DNS is a gov shitcoin

https://torrentfreak.com/z-library-more-domains-seized-than-any-other-pirate-site-in-history-240721/


Don't know about you, but I will 100% be purchasing a nostr:nprofile1qqs9df4h2deu3aae83fmet5xmrlm4w5l9gdnsy3q2n7dklem7ezmwfcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq5xamn8ghj7dnvv45xs7tywde8g6rpvakkjuekw46nvar4vdhxgan6wumkxatzwpckk6rk0puhjdm2da5k7ce5x4kkkumjx3jkzepwdahxjmmwqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wd9hxvmckqw0xz router next year.

HT nostr:nprofile1qqsfvzdsjdzsm4lq47ecjcv6ekhju6sddqtujd2j7wg3upd4ptnnu0gpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue06rnawm

https://fountain.fm/episode/vJ1IPqcSdQPOzXroeB1C


Anyone know what’s the fastest embedded key/value store ? (Which is written in Rust or has a Rust wrapper)

I don’t care about safety and consistency, I need pure speed and disk space efficiency

Satonomics has been using for a while now Sanakirja which is quite good but needs a ton of space. Ive tried in the past heed (lmdb) and redb but they were worse performance wise, at least then, I might need to try again, am I missing another player ?


Its fine if the NIPs change, I don't mind unless its a mandatory breaking change.  I say grow a thick skin to those who can't handle constant breaking changes - that's the way its been on a lot of lightning and a lot of projects in the space.

Dev talent is super thin, globally. We need to work harder on getting more young devs involved, none of us are gonna live forever.


nostr:nprofile1qqsrc23txhhfq2yt9m32s7h90864j2cg62hvq4tpkrz8cvhpg5z39vgpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuum5w43xy7fwv3jhvtcpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw3kkzurnw3ezu6t09uq3kamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwd6kgmmrv9excmmn9e3k7mf02qnk6j since you're embracing Nostr, what are your thoughts on adding Nostr support to some Proton products?

Add Nostr key signing and management to Proton Pass. (NIP-07)
Add Nostr address support to Proton accounts. (NIP -05)


The number one thing I learned building a product is that people do not know how to read.

That is completely reinforced by people's inability to read product shutdown announcements too and coming up with their own conclusions in their heads. It's wild.


I always hoped that kind of thing would be done by relays. Relays can be easily be local.

Well, in fact Japanese relays already block anyone that isn't Japanese.


Look like nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 is avoiding opinions he disagrees with on his podcast, so which one should I go on instead to talk about hardware wallet issues? https://image.nostr.build/e73fac49e7e40f67b1d0f2842f63ed3dd96e23649cf60a85575481177c88a847.jpg


hey nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnrw4e8yetwwshxv7tf9uq3xamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwccxctnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj94ex2mrp0yh8wmrkwvh8xurpvdjj7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vshsz9nhwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmny9uq3wamnwvaz7tmjwdekccte9ehx7um5wghxuet59uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfnj7qpqyfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9sdqhjhd  can you add the ability to log into wavlake by means of a DM'd login code? Support for this method was recently added to https://github.com/nostrband/nostr-login and it makes it a lot easier for mobile users. You just enter your nprofile, get a login code in your regular nostr client, and paste it into the website you're logging into.

It also makes it so I don't have to install a browser extension whose code I don't want to review and trust. Thanks! Holding off on uploading my music to your site for now but please let me know if it's feasible or if there's anything I can help with to *make it* feasible.


Just merged https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1185, which introduces NIP 73 for external identities via the `i` tag. A different form of them is already in use in NIP 39, for linking external identities to user profiles.

NIP 73 IDs are instead fully-qualified, and include a second parameter which is a suggested URL, which allows clients to easily link out when they don't want to special case every ID type.

What's neat about this is that this will allow platforms like Fountain to reference podcast episodes in nostr comments, which can be displayed and linked out to by regular nostr clients, expanding the scope of the nostr-enabled web!


How anyone can believe in the “Efficient Market Hypothesis” after watching trillions of dollars be wiped off the map and a cascade of liquidations because people were borrowing in one fake fiat currency at a fiat interest rate and plowing it into another fake fiat currency at another fiat interest rate, and then have a quarter of a percent diktat by a handful of Japanese guys in room blow the whole thing up, needs to reexamine their thesis.


🎯 nostr:note1gf6y5va70nwkp89ed9sungtjsyjfysds9msn3vh7qcz9hdnr32fql36gsd


Some thoughts as a mutiny angel investor. Open source wallets are hard. They’re even harder to monetize. The samourai/wasabi shit made that monetization even harder. Having seen some of the financials, I feel confident stating the team isn’t/wasn’t “pocketing money”. They are a small scrappy startup team working with limited resources. I believe they are doing their best / did their best with the wallet. I don’t believe anything nefarious is going on. Startups are just fucking hard.